課程名稱︰英國文學史1600-1800
課程性質︰系定必修
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2007/6/26
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
English Literature
Final Exam
June 2007
I. True/ False: (24%)
1.The Restoration on 1660 brought about the reopening of the theaters.
2.In 1707 the Act of Union joined Ireland to England and Wales.
3.The accession of William of Orange marks the famous event of the Glorious
Revolution.
4.The main line of British philosophy can be characterizes as skepticism.
5.The emphasis of neoclassical English literature is on the appropriate,
clarity, restraint and discipline.
6.The history of eighteenth-century literature was first composed by the
Romantics.
7.Natural religion is the worship of nature as a kind of deity.
8.For the Augustans, to study Nature was also to study the ancients.
9.Alexsander Pope was the first English writer to show that literature alone
could be a gainful profession.
10.Sentimentalism, evangelicalism and the pursuits of wealth and luxury were
counter movements that hindered the invention of the modern individualism
in the 18th century.
11.The Middle Passage refers to the deadly voyage of African slaves across the
Atlantic.
12.The Whigs were supporters of commerce and policies of toleration.
II. Analyze and comment on THREE of the following: (27%)
1....the earth/ Though, in comparison of heav'n, so small,/ Nor glistering,
may of solid good contain/ More plenty than the sun that barren shines,
/Whose virtue on itself works no effect,/ But in the fruitful earth; there
first received/ His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.
2.What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?/ Why rove my thoughts beyond
this last retreats?/ Why feels my heart itslong-forgotten heat?/ Yet, yet I
love.
3.Patron: One who countenances, supports, or protects. Commonly a wretch who
supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
4.I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for
landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to
have the best title to the children.
5.Trade, without enlarging the British territory, has given us a kind of
additional empire. It has multiplied the number of the rich and made our
landed estates infinitely more valuable.
III. Explain FIVE of the following: (25%)
1.mock epic
2.Gothic romance
3.The Beggar's Opera
4.Abdiel
5.Psalmanazar
6.Aboan
7.comedy of manners
8.Tristram Shandy
IV. Answer ONE of the following questions in well-written and well-supported
essay. (24%)
1. Discuss gender relationship in Paradise Lost, Oroonoko and Eloisa to
Abelard to argue which text best speaks for women.
2. "The age that developed the slave trade was also the age that gave rise to
the abolitionist movement; the age that codified rigid standards of conduct
for women was also and age when many women read and wrote for themselves;
the age for reason was also the age when sensibility flourished." Use
specific texts to coment on the statement.
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